A teenager accused of bringing a bomb to school last spring and threatening to blow it up has been sentenced to three years' confinement. 16-year-old Andrew Criswell of Pendergrass will be held at the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center until he turns 17. Then a judge will decide where he will serve the rest of his sentence. Criswell pleaded guilty to walking into the Jackson County Comprehensive High School with a homemade bomb.
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Teen pleads guilty to bomb in school
A 16-year-old pleaded guilty this morning to taking a bomb into a northeast Georgia high school. Andrew Thomas Criswell of Pendergrass was 15 last April when he walked into Jackson County Comprehensive High School’s main office with a bomb. 17-hundred students and staff were forced to flee the building. Charged as an adult, Criswell faces at least 3 years in prison, and a most 45 years.
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